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Our whole life depends on the energy of the sun. No coincidence in recently, mankind has been trying to take it directly, that is, installs all kinds of devices (solar panels) that collect the energy of our generous luminary.
Currently, there are even yachts with solar sails, planes flying on solar energy, not to mention spacecraft and so on. However, use solar energy on Earth in a traditional way is not very convenient and efficiently, so scientists are constantly working on creating optimal type of solar fuel.
And it’s already found, scientists at Harvard University have found a way collect the energy of the sun in liquid fuel. They became isopropyl alcohol.
The principle of creating a “liquid sun” was simple. Under exposure to sunlight splits water into oxygen and hydrogen, the latter is connected using special bacteria with carbon dioxide – the result is a liquid isopropyl alcohol. Scientists have “spied” such a principle on nature, just so all plants receive energy. It is no coincidence that the distillation apparatus itself scientists called solar energy into liquid fuel artificial by sheet.
The effectiveness of such an artificial sheet is no less natural, that is, one percent of solar energy is easy turns into isopropyl alcohol. True, scientists believe that the effectiveness of this technology can be increased at least in Five times. And now they are working hard on it.
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